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[SpavVy]

• "Because my webcomic is targeted to male readers, as I’m a male myself, I really understand what we really desire in a fictional story, if the mc is a male, we want a harem in it, and if the mc is a female, we want to see the mc beats the strong arrogance men and also a bit of GL relationship with other female main characters."

Um, what? I may not be a guy, but most of my good friends are and all of them do not find the whole harem thing all that appealing...Even my husband and our roommate admitted that they do not care about harems all that much and just want good writing and or visuals. Harems to us are more of a joke if anything.

Now as a woman, I find the trope of having a female main character beating up sexist and arrogant men just for the point of "Look she's a strong woman!" is actually cringe and I'm tired of seeing it. There are so many great ways to write a strong female character but this isn't it. Plus adding in the GL bit to top it off is clearly just a fetish thing from what I can tell rather than actual LGBT rep which is likely just going to piss off lesbians and bisexual women. (And I think rightfully so)

[alexlcuri07]

Did we... did we actually defend the OP when they said that a ENBY main character would turn their story into a comedy?

......

K.

Back to the point: It's actually a fact that if you have a male MC then you're more likely to get a larger readership. But I think you should look back at what makes a good character a good character and a good story a good story.

As someone who also writes in the action genre (in multiple genders' POVs) I can say that those tropes you listed (harems and/or gl for the "manly" female lead) are played out. If you're not going to do something new with them, they'll be about as successful as the millions of other online versions of them: i.e. not successful at all. You can also consider having more than one MC since I don't think you could respectfully represent a NB main character anyhow.

[DiegoPalacios]

Did we... did we actually defend the OP when they said that a ENBY main character would turn their story into a comedy?

was more like giving op the benefit of the doubt due to possible ignorance caused by possible cultural backgrounds to the point they may not even know the issue. (or even the fact that there's an issue)

That being said, no one here agreed with OP's statement about nonbinary protagonists turning the story into a comedy.....

[alexlcuri07]

Maybe the benefit of the doubt should be given to the NB creators that had to see that remark.

(But again, not the point here.)

[crimson_mystery_cake]

I would just like to say that I REALLY like this design and I lowkey want to see a sci-fi comic with an enby character design like this?? Like if this was an option on the poll I would not hesitate to pick this lol.

[hakei]

My dude, I think you're projecting a lot of your limited understanding (or even your own preferences) onto other people and thinking your own opinions are The Truth. It's not.

You should branch out and read more diverse works by other people that are not, like, written for 5-year old boys.

[jensrichard77]

@victoria1 I think this has derailed

[Sethstiel]

Ehhehe thank you~
I was actually genuinely trying to help the OP, but after that kind of reply he gave me, I don’t even want to say anything else ^^

I’m not gonna reply the negativity with negativity

P.S Yes, I think my version of non-binary character rocks ^^

[ahogemon]

Thank you for participating in the poll and thank you for the support, Prologue will be in this December and the launch next Spring 2022.

[Sethstiel]

Don't worry, I've never claimed that was my OC
I was simply try to help you by showing you a version of my idea

That's why I especially kept your watermark

[jermajay]

It's pretty rude to imply that nonbinary people are having 'identity crisis'. There were a lot of people defending you but you don't seem at all interesting in educating yourself.

[Jenny-Toons]

[Jenny-Toons]

Closed due to topic derailing.

[Jenny-Toons]